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Thomson Reuters’ OnePass-YourAss Scheme, Part One: The sign on the wall says "Progress over [Software] Protocol"

07 Feb

Back on Dec. 15, 2011, a law firm librarian posted a warning on law-lib about how anyone who has a credit card or knows the firm’s Land of 10,000 Invoices account number can execute a transaction that will be billed…

 

The Moral Leader of Our Nation: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Law of the Land

16 Jan

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) would have been 83 on Jan. 15, 2012. Unfortunately his birthday has been turned into a three-day weekend by being recognized as a federal holiday observed on the…

 

Right-sizing Academic Law Library Print Collections in and for the 21st Century: Cornell substituting print with digital like "all other top law schools are doing" but consequences need to be addressed

23 Nov

Most every academic law library director knows that when their institutions need more space, the law library’s big footprint on the blueprint becomes an attractive target for a land grab. Law firm directors too. At least since the hiring boom…

 

Clearing the Lungs

01 Oct

The Daily Beast offers many not-so-fun facts about the American workforce in an infograph published at Land Of The Free, Home Of The Workaholics. Hat tip to LLB co-editor Mark Giangrande. Many thanks. Hacked up some phlegm over this one….

 

What If the Euro Fails: What Happens to Our Dependence on Multi-National Foreign-Owned Corporations for the "Oil" which Lubricates the "Law of the Land"?

28 Sep

The EU has a common currency but no unified political structure yet. For a light take on this in the context of the possible collapse of the Euro see below two recent Colbert Report segments. For something a hellva lot…

 

Google Books Case Gearing Up For Trial As Settlement Talks Still Going On

16 Sep

There are some developments in the Google Book Settlement talks. Search Engine Land is reporting from cited sources that Judge Chin is setting up pretrial steps with the idea that the case could go to trial sometime in mid-2012. However,…

 

A "Modern" Update by the Folks from the Land of 10,000 Invoices for Modern Tort Law

16 Aug

Quoting from a recent law-lib message: For those who subscribe to West’s Modern Tort Law in paper format, did you get your June update? We just did. We received the new table of contents and revised chapters 6 & 14….

 

Haiku Trend Emerging in Law Blogs

15 Jul

… such as this one from Supreme Court Haiku of the Day: The Law of the Land in Seventeen Syllables for the SCOTUS decision in J. McIntyre Machinery v. Nicastro: Hand hurt by machine Maker did not target state No…